Week 9 - Producing complete drawing

Class 2 - Try to use color!

Homework 1 - Mask Design.

Requirements:
a. Design four masks. It's all about your design: layout on the paper, face shape, pattern for masks, colors, etc.
b. Use 3 to 6 kinds of colors in each one (I suggest you to use 4 to 5).
c. Give each mask it's life, i.e. characteristic, emotion, facial expression and even a gender.
d. Each mask should have a background (you decide the size and shape of the background) shaded by a color that has been used in another mask.
e. Use the 14x17" sketchbook and color pencils.

These are some examples. You are supposed to design as detailed as them.

Homework 2 - try your color pencils (standard color pencil vs. watercolor pencils.)

Requirements:

a. devide your paper into two portions vertically - one column for watercolor pencil, and the other column for standard color pencils (wax-based color pencils). You decide how wide are the columns.

b. For each color of watercolor pencil, shade the area in dry first. And then, use the thin brush from our tool box, wet the tip with water, and melt a little bit of the dry area that you just shaded, drag your brush to shade the rest of the area of that color. Then clean the brush. In this step, you'd better have another paper at hand for trial.

c. After you finish all the twelve colors from water color pencil, the the other column with standard color pencils. Pick the closest color to each color from watercolor pencil areas, match and line them up horizontally.

d. Follow textbook page 50 to write texts: major titles - watercolor pencils/ standard color pencils, minor titles - the names of all the colors (the names for the close colors on one line may be different.) Write with 0.2 pen.

e. Use 12x9 inch sketchbook. Control water amount on the brush, don't let it drop! Make sure everything looks clean and nice.

This is a reference example. Please notice now the colors are gradually changing (color relatives are together, right? )

Homework 3 - pencil sketch

Requirements:

1. Pick one drawing to do. If you choose the last one, it's due on the second class of the next week. Other choices are due in the first class, together with the other two homework items.

2. 14x17 sketch paper, pencil, border lines.